15 January 2007 – 21 January 2007
The Week beginning January 15th, 2007
Week as a Whole:
Every New Moon marks the end of a lunar cycle and the beginning of another. It’s a time when the consequences of our choices are washing over us and we can step back and re-group. The New Moons fall in relatively the same place in each sign as each month passes. Our recent New Moons have been at the end of signs and we’ve been working with ending situations. This New Moon is in Capricorn (chart below) and is time for us to reflect on our career and political choices and their consequences. Have they created situations that we find healthy and rewarding? How are we spending our time? Do we feel useful and important to those in our world?
In addition to the endings and beginnings of this New Moon on Thursday, Mercury, Mars, and the Sun change signs as further indications of a phase shift taking place this week. On Monday, Mercury enters Aquarius his strongest sign. While in Aquarius Mercury can “see” ideas, he make occasional lightning leaps to sure knowledge, he can bridge gaps finding ways to explain with clarity that are widely understood. He can also be dogmatically sure of his knowledge and quite pig-headed when pushed. This is a period to step out of ordinary thought patterns look for new perspectives.
On Tuesday Mars enters Capricorn and this too is his strongest zodiac position. Our aggression - get up and go - is focused and efficient. Mars spends about six weeks in Capricorn every two years and it’s a time to take on hard work and complex tasks. Sustained effort is not usually a strength of Mars, but here in Capricorn he perseveres and is content with small steady progress in relentless Capricorn fashion. In another way, his passage through Capricorn will fire up politics into outright confrontation. Seasoned political types are usually successful at maintaining control and, like the sure-footed goat, rarely act without forethought. Expect some outbursts of true feeling from now through the end of February.
Venus aligns with Neptune an hour before the New Moon putting their combined energy into the coming four-week lunar cycle. (You will find them together at the 5 o’clock position.) Venus joins Neptune every year as she circles the Sun (and our sky). Combined in Aquarius they present an opportunity to envision our future with our loved ones. We also need to feel a direction and higher purpose in our lives together; a purpose shared by other liked minded people. As always with Neptune’s bright images before us, we need to remember that he beckons from the land of magical ideals, ideals we should strive to reach but, perhaps, will never fully attain. We should be satisfied with progress and not be disappointed that we cannot achieve perfection in all things. Neptune brings us close to perfection and even sparks our lives with bright magical moments now and then. Clinging to these moments or trying to reproduce them leads to frustration. But this is time to renew our vision, step back and inward at this New Moon and take the long view of what matters to us and where we’re going.
Interestingly, this New Moon degree bears the symbol of “a woman reading tea leaves” and further points to a mystical vision of the future that’s available to us. The symbol points to the underlying unified harmony of our world in which the greatest is found symbolized in the smallest. It’s this same coherence that empowers the positions of the planets to describe the condition of time. We live in a meaningful magical world that functions with 6 billion plus centers and no boundaries. The symbol also urges us to pay attention to the small signs that come to us every day and especially this week from our dreams.
This New Moon also carries the energy of Jupiter square to Uranus which has been coming into focus in recent weeks. (Jupiter is at 7 o’clock and Uranus is at 4 o’clock.) Jupiter is exactly square to Uranus next Monday and even thought he moves at a stately pace they are less than ½ a degree from exactitude on this New Moon. If you’ve had a “Eureka” moment recently you’ve been touch by Jupiter – Uranus. If you’ve felt suddenly more connected with people that ordinarily you wouldn’t encounter: Jupiter – Uranus. Sudden restlessness and metaphysical claustrophobia can also be linked to these two. Both are mind-expanding challengers of the status quo. They are working to bring us to a new understanding in life, to put things together in new ways and find new meaning.
When we look at the New Moon chart as a whole, we see Saturn in Leo at 10 o’clock and on the other side of the chart all the other planets contained between Jupiter and Uranus. See this as the “king” having to adjust to a populace who’s been given a new vision and is eager for movement toward this new future. Leaders must choose to lead toward this future or resist it. They cannot duck the issue at this New Moon. Saturn retrograde draws all our attention to choices made in the past, made by all of us, and at the New Moon it is time to consider the consequences and the road forward.
When the Sun enters Aquarius on Saturday we can begin to take the first steps.
Daily Forecasts:
Monday 15 January 2007
A little too much mental stimulation may be in the air this morning as the Moon moves from Jupiter to square Uranus. Later she moves to anticipate the New Moon’s magic by connecting with Venus and then Neptune.
Tuesday 16 January 2007
The Moon goes Void at 1:28pm/4:28pm aligned with Pluto. Mars has just entered Capricorn thirty minutes before. This is time to refocus your effort and clear away extraneous details. The Moon enters Capricorn at 5:49pm/8:49pm. Even if you’re “rearin’ to go” don’t kick off a project during the Void Moon.
Wednesday 17 January 2007
Steady work, quiet mood. We’re all introspective and pondering the past, both social and personal.
Thursday 18 January 2007
The Moon goes Void at the New Moon at 8:01pm/11:01pm. She enters Aquarius at 10:16pm/1:16am. Take the time between to breathe slowly, meditate or pray, and find your inner balance. Venus and Neptune have just aligned. Think long thoughts and see clear visions. Avoid the raucous and rude; our natural armor’s a bit thin. Light a candle and a stick of incense. Fill your space with light and music.
Friday 19 January 2007
We’re finishing up and moving on today. There’s change in the air. Expect a “big” dream tonight; look for guidance in its symbols.
Saturday 20 January 2007
A good night for a gathering with a non-homogenous group of people. Go out somewhere different. Accept that some part of your past is falling away. Even if it’s served you well, you’ve outgrown it. The Moon goes Void at 9:00pm/12:00am.
Sunday 21 January 2007
She enters Pisces at 12:48am/3:48am and we lose some of our cool detachment. This evening the Moon again channels the Jupiter – Uranus mind-expansion as she connects with them both at 9:20pm/12:20pm. Sleep may be slow in coming as our minds buzz.
Long Range Forecast:
February 13th – Mercury begins three weeks of retrograde motion that ends on March 7th. Signing important documents should be postponed. Plan to best use this time to re-organize all things mental and communicative. Expect to lose and find something.
Long-Long Range Forecast:
April 14, 2009 – January 21, 2010 - Saturn makes a series of squares to Pluto newly in Capricorn. The end of business-as-usual politics. The nationalistic dinosaurs will enter their twilight times. The transition to organic regional government will not be smooth…the result may be some corporate feudal mixture.
June 24, 2012 – April 17, 2015 - Uranus in Aries forms his first major hard aspect to Pluto, a square angle, since they were aligned in the second half of the 1960’s. Hippie dreams may come true when the ecology and/or petroleum-based economies fail. Plan to live where there is food and water and you don’t need a car. Plan to live where you’ll know your neighbors…maybe even love them. What a thought! We may have to choose between eating grain on a commune or growing very thin in the city.
Notices for Los Angeles area readers:
Ongoing Classes:
10:30am Class in Astrological Methods - Heroes and Villains. Using the charts of well-known people, good guys and bad guys, the effects of progressions, transits, solar returns, and other techniques will be taught and explored. The class is open to people who know the basics of astrology. Call the New Age Bible and Philosophy Center, 1139 Lincoln Boulevard, 310-395-4346 or me, 818-316-0702, for details.
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Copyright 2007 Rich Humbert